New Books in Buddhist Studies
Interviews with Scholars of Buddhism about their New Books
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- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 61 minutes
- Episodes
- 387
- Years Active
- 2011 - 2025
Roger K. Thomas, "Counting Dreams: The Life and Writings of the Loyalist Nun Nomura Bōtō" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Counting Dreams: The Life and Writings of the Loyalist Nun Nomura Bōtō (Cornell UP, 2021) tells the story of Nomura Bōtō, a Buddhist nun, writer, poet, and activist who joined the movement to oppose …
00:54:52 |
Tue 19 Oct 2021
Sharing Scholarship: Academic Publishing and Teaching Tibetan Buddhism in Finland
How can one approach religion as both an academic researcher and a spiritual practitioner? Join us for this wide ranging talk with Dr. Albion Butters, historian of religion and a specialist in Tibeta…
00:27:51 |
Fri 08 Oct 2021
Pankaj Mirshra, “Turning the Mirror: A View From the East” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Turning the Mirror: A View From the East is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and award-winning writer Pankaj Mishra. The conversation provides behind-the-scenes insights…
01:24:37 |
Thu 07 Oct 2021
Orion Klautau and Hans Martin Krämer, "Buddhism and Modernity: Sources from Nineteenth-Century Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
Buddhism and Modernity: Sources from Nineteenth-Century Japan (University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2021) is a welcome new collection of twenty sources on modern Japanese Buddhism, translated and with introd…
01:05:21 |
Wed 06 Oct 2021
Pamela Ayo Yetunde on being Black and Buddhist
What does it mean to be black and Buddhist, and what does that have to do with Life Wisdom? This episode of Life Wisdom features the dynamic work of Pamela Ayo Yetunde, Pastoral Counsellor, Co-Founde…
00:54:37 |
Wed 25 Aug 2021
Ilana Maymind, "Exile and Otherness: The Ethics of Shinran and Maimonides" (Lexington Books, 2020)
In Exile and Otherness: The Ethics of Shinran and Maimonides (Lexington Books, 2020), Ilana Maymind argues that Shinran (1173–1263), the founder of True Pure Land Buddhism (Jodo Shinshu), and Maimoni…
00:46:10 |
Fri 13 Aug 2021
Robin Derricourt, "Creating God: The Birth and Growth of Major Religions" ( Manchester UP, 2021)
What do we really know about how and where religions began, and how they spread?
Robin Derricourt considers the birth and growth of several major religions, using history and archaeology to recreate…
00:52:22 |
Thu 29 Jul 2021
Francis Wade, "Myanmar's Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim 'Other'" (Zed Books, 2017)
In 2017, Myanmar's military launched a campaign of widespread targeted violence against its Rohingya minority. The horrific atrocities was later described by United Nations experts as genocide. This …
00:50:27 |
Wed 28 Jul 2021
A Conversation with Greg Bailey: Sanskrit Scholar and Novelist
This interview features a candid conversation with Greg Bailey, seasoned scholar of Sanskrit narrative Literature, on his multi-decade work on the Purāṇas and Mahābhārata, and on his new novel In Sea…
00:53:43 |
Thu 22 Jul 2021
Sokthan Yeng, "Buddhist Feminism: Transforming Anger against Patriarchy" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
How can Buddhism and feminism be brought together in a constructive way to challenge patriarchial structures? What could such a philosophy say about anger over injustice and oppression? In Buddhist F…
01:10:54 |
Tue 20 Jul 2021
April D. Hughes, "Worldly Saviors and Imperial Authority in Medieval Chinese Buddhism" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
What is the relationship between Buddhism and politics? How might Buddhism be realized in this world? And how might Buddhist texts help legitimate new rulers? These questions are ably addressed in Ap…
00:46:56 |
Fri 25 Jun 2021
Seth Zuihō Segall, "Buddhism and Human Flourishing: A Modern Western Perspective" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Western Buddhism is still in its infancy, but as it grows, it is evolving, as has been true in every country where Buddhism was introduced over the past two millennia. In this book, Seth Segall asks …
01:05:13 |
Fri 25 Jun 2021
Susan Blakeley Klein, "Dancing the Dharma: Religious and Political Allegory in Japanese Noh Theater" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Dancing the Dharma: Religious and Political Allegory in Japanese Noh Theater (Harvard UP, 2020) examines the theory and practice of allegory by exploring a select group of medieval Japanese noh plays…
01:04:38 |
Fri 18 Jun 2021
Michael Nichols, "Malleable Mara: Transformations of a Buddhist Symbol of Evil" (SUNY Press, 2020)
Michael Nichols's Malleable Mara: Transformations of a Buddhist Symbol of Evil (SUNY Press, 2020) is the first book to examine the development of the figure of Māra, who appears across Buddhist tradi…
00:37:08 |
Thu 17 Jun 2021
Teaching Buddhist Studies Online: A Discussion with Kate Hartmann
Join Raj Balkaran as he talks with Dr. Kate Hartmann, Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Wyoming and Director of Buddhist Studies Online, a new educational platform providin…
01:06:55 |
Fri 30 Apr 2021
Bhante Saranapala: The Urban Buddhist Monk
What does wisdom have to do with kindness? This podcast features words of wisdom form Bhante Saranapala, also known as The Urban Buddhist Monk. An International Monk, Teacher, and Speaker, Bhante is …
00:49:36 |
Wed 28 Apr 2021
A. Castiglioni and F. Rambelli, "Defining Shugendo: Critical Studies on Japanese Mountain Religion" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Andrea Castiglioni and Fabio Rambelli's edited volume Defining Shugendo: Critical Studies on Japanese Mountain Religion (Bloomsbury, 2020) presents the newest studies on Shugendō-related practices an…
00:51:26 |
Mon 26 Apr 2021
Thomas Robinson and Hillary Rodrigues, "World Religions Reader: Understanding Our Religious World" (ROBINEST, 2020)
Preparing online materials since 2005 (including Hindusim the EBook, 2016), Dr. Hillary Rodrigues has been working on a fantastic resource for anyone interested in studying or teaching world religion…
00:41:19 |
Fri 23 Apr 2021
Uranchimeg Tsultemin, "A Monastery on the Move: Art and Politics in Later Buddhist Mongolia" (U Hawaii Press, 2020)
How, and why did a ger (yurt) develop into the largest and most important monastery in Mongolia, and how did it support the authority of its main resident, the Jebtsundampa Khutugtu? These are the qu…
01:13:25 |
Fri 23 Apr 2021
Brenton Sullivan, "Building a Religious Empire: Tibetan Buddhism, Bureaucracy, and the Rise of the Gelukpa" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
How did Geluk Buddhism become the most widespread school of Tibetan Buddhism in Inner Asia and beyond? In Building a Religious Empire: Tibetan Buddhism, Bureaucracy, and the Rise of the Gelukpa (Univ…
01:11:19 |
Thu 22 Apr 2021
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